Posted on 11/23/2021 12:08:30 PM PST by RandFan
President Biden’s approval numbers are dropping like lead. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released last week, only 36 percent of Americans approve of Biden’s performance as president. From Covid, to the economy, to foreign policy, Biden’s numbers are in the tank. Three out of four Americans are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today.
Inflation is sky high, gasoline prices are higher than they’ve been since Obama was president, and the store shelves are empty just in time for Christmas. And the president’s illegal and immoral vaccine mandate may result in millions leaving their jobs rather than accept the experimental covid shots. That should do wonders for the “supply chain” problems in the US.
Biden’s ability to drag the economy back from the brink is very limited and the Democrat brand is looking more and more like poison as the US moves into mid-term election season.
That can be dangerous.
When presidents make war they find that political opposition dries up and the media rolls over in gratitude. Is Biden eyeing foreign action to bolster his sagging support back home?
Traditionally, progressives have been wary of aggressive US foreign policy, but four years of phony “Russiagate” lies has left a good deal of the political Left enamored with the CIA, FBI, and warmongering “woke” military officers like Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley. Many of them will likely cheer a military conflict.
When it comes to foreign policy, the Biden White House continues some of the worst policies of the previous Administration. The US continues to sail warships through the South China Sea and when such saber rattling provokes Chinese concern the Chinese are condemned as the aggressors.
Similarly, the US just sent warships into Russia’s backyard in the Black Sea to perform military maneuvers. Imagine Russian wargames off the Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico! And then the US Administration attacked Russia for “massing troops”… inside Russia!
The US media is, as usual, complicit in propagandizing the US population. Thus, Russia is said to be “massing troops near Ukraine” without the explanation that “near Ukraine” is actually within Russia. So Russia is threatening war by holding military exercises within its own borders, but the US is entirely peaceful when it sends warships thousands of miles away up to the Russian border.
On Friday the Russian military intercepted US warplanes reportedly just 12.5 miles from the Russian border. The US and NATO continue to deliver lethal weapons to the government in Kiev, which only embolden Ukrainian President Zelensky to ratchet up the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The US foreign policy and military establishment exist in an echo chamber. They believe their rhetoric that the rest of the world is eagerly awaiting its orders from Washington and that the US has the moral right – and the ability – to tell the rest of the world what to do. This sets the stage for a potentially catastrophic miscalculation in the US Administration. Already Russian President Putin complained last week that the US takes its “red lines” too lightly, no doubt referring to Ukraine.
Biden may be calculating that he needs a nice little war to boost back his numbers and rally Americans to his support. Like most everything else in this first year of the Biden Administration, it would be a terrible mistake.
Optimism Erupts on Morning Joe: Praise 'Most Successful' Pelosi, Predict Biden Poll Recovery .
Story was from earlier today.
Brandon’s numbers tank...US brandishes pen at Russians.
Waves empty gas tank at OPEC.
Even Hitler wasn’t stupid enough to send the Kriegsmarine to the Black Sea to bait Stalin. We leave that to the geniuses on the JCS and at NATO headquarters. And their pals at Raytheon, etc.
Can you say extended supply lines? I knew you could.
China, Russia Condemn U.S. Military Moves Near Borders, Deepen 'Unbreakable' Cooperation
I understand but when people start encouraging Russian or Chinese invasions I’m not on board.
The West needs to deter invasions of Ukraine and Taiwan
How ironic..... all the predictions that Trump would get us into war and we had the strongest foreign policy without that in my lifetime and now we elected the man who was a “foreign policy expert” according to the media and it seems inevitable.
How. With Biden? How do we stop it? We went from a President who WAS respected by the world to a man whom few respect.
If Afghanistan is any prediction of future results we should all pray every day for our young men and women in the military.
Let’s Go Brandon!
The left controls almost all news outlets and social media platforms, it would be easy for them to lie about polling like they do everything else. They could claim he’s polling over 90%. I think they get satisfaction from rubbing this sh^t in our face. It’s really hard to believe he won more votes than Obama did! They want us to know they stole the election and there’s nothing we can do about it.
Embarrassing.
Typical Ron "Code Pink" Paul.
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